Shortly - as a famous web-historian from the future once said: "Civilizations of all kinds crawled through the dark
ages for a long time; then one sunny day the astonishing prophet Clifford Pickover established RealityCarnival.Com."

Or, if we want to be more specific, as wise people through the centuries always claimed according to the ancient
Eastern Island fishermen's oral tradition: the moments in (all kinds of) life are of 2 kinds:

1) the ones before being featured at Cliff's Reality Carnival 2)
the ones after that.